Success doesn't always look like token value, the venture playbook is being rewritten. @SpartanBlack_1 (Spartan Group), @santiagoroel (Inversion), @rajivpoc (Framework Ventures) take the MEXC Stage with @lawmaster (The Block). Wed 7 Oct · 3:30 PM · MEXC Stage

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You don’t fully grasp how much of your life is tracked until you’re sitting in a courtroom, watching federal prosecutors use your digital history against you, down to your most harmless Google searches. Your entire life becomes an open book, and even your most innocent actions can be twisted into something sinister. They get to tell the most damning version of your story. To tell yours in your own words, you have to take the stand.

A few months later - a Quantum Safe Bitcoin tx on mainnet: mempool.space/tx/305a24ffea9… Thanks to StarkWare's @giladi_tom85141 taking this to the finish line and @MARAFoundation_ Slipstream mining this non-standard tx Also @robin_linus & @Ethan_Heilman on previous work led to QSB

Larry Cermak (@lawmaster) returns to TOKEN2049 Singapore. President of @TheBlockCo, recently promoted from CEO to focus on research and product. Few outlets have shaped how this industry reads its own news cycle as much as his. Tickets: token2049.com/singapore/tick…

EXCLUSIVE: Inside Tether’s KPMG Audit: Gold Bars, Bitcoin, and $6B in Excess Equity Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino joins The Starting Block to unpack details of their KPMG US audit. Ardoino explains how Tether finally cleared the biggest hurdle in the room with a Big Four audit from KPMG US, why the timing mattered, and what the new yearly audit plus quarterly attestations mean for the company and the industry. Timestamps 00:00 - Paolo Ardoino joins to discuss Tether’s Big Four audit announcement 01:16 - Why the audit took years and what made it possible now 03:31 - Why Tether chose KPMG US after earlier controversy around attestations 04:58 - Yearly audits and quarterly attestations as a transparency standard 05:15 - Responding to critics who still question Tether’s transparency 06:36 - The 7 billion redemption stress test in 2022 07:57 - Why auditors counted gold bars in Tether’s reserves 08:40 - Tether’s gold and Bitcoin reserve holdings 09:23 - The private fundraising narrative and why Tether says it does not need capital 12:31 - Tether’s AI effort, Qvac, and the mission to serve the unbanked 14:59 - Supporting Bitcoin security work after the Coldcard exploit 16:52 - Confirming annual audits and quarterly attestations going forward

Reunited with the tall man @lawmaster

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Live from Abu Dhabi: The Starting Block EP1 with @cz_binance nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1jGXggOEg…

[THE BLOCK EXCLUSIVE] CZ. Live. Unfiltered. Binance founder @cz_binance joins The Starting Block for an unscripted conversation. June 29. 8AM ET / 2PM CET Stream link: piped.video/watch?v=Kdyvngus…

We’re live with the afternoon session of The Starting Block at @btcprague. Join us on @TheBlockCo livestream as we chat to @stephanlivera @cryptonomista @efenigson @matej_zak & @lawmaster! @Trezor @hodlwithLedn nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1YxNrrEMR…

1) Almost a year ago I stepped back from crypto to focus on multiple personal projects. I traveled, I read, I reflected and I built. Today I am announcing the main one: @TVLCap, which I am proud to have co-founded, and a $5M raise to bring structured products onchain.

Bitcoin is the most sovereign money ever created. It is also the least private money people have ever used. strkBTC fixes that. Live on Starknet today. 🧵

The Block appoints veteran media operator Steve Chung as CEO theblock.co/post/398948/the-…

First podcast since things changed. Went through the rationale around moving on from the hedge fund world, why I think @Plasma is uniquely positioned to win and where we go from here as an industry. Thank you again to @lawmaster and @NamikMuduroglu for having me on!

NEW: Big Brain Podcast 🧠 Crypto's Value Era @zaheerebtikar shut down Split Capital two weeks before the 10/10 crash. Now he's CSO at @Plasma and focused on creating real value. "You need to take off the rose-colored glasses of what crypto used to be." Full interview 👇 OUTLINE 00:00 Introduction 01:18 Plasma Pivot 10:08 Verticalization Thesis 16:31 Plasma USP 19:30 Whop Announcement 21:20 Token Value Accrual 28:40 Token Transparency 31:48 Role of Community 35:30 ETH vs. SOL 44:00 Market Outlook

Live Now: The Crypto Beat with @_RichardTeng, Co-CEO at @binance. nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1jGXgekrb…

Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Transactions Without Softforks github.com/avihu28/Quantum-S…

Today I start the next chapter of my career! I am incredibly excited to join @TheBlockCo as Head of Multimedia. For the past 14 years, I've worked as a multimedia journalist and broadcaster. I believe in journalistic integrity and ethics. When I spoke to @lawmaster , @XBT002 @Timccopeland earlier this year, I could really feel that was a core part of the DNA of the company. I also got the feeling that The Block was a place I could continue to learn AND help grow from a multimedia perspective. So I decided to go for it! And that is the task ahead of me. I believe The Block is one of the bastions of quality journalism in the cryptocurrency space. Hopefully, I can do my part to solidify that position. If you want to reach out about events, news, leads, content ideas. Drop me an email - gjenkinson@theblock.co. We are going to be doing A LOT across the board from a multimedia perspective. But today is day one, and we have to learn to walk before we can run.